Hockley Heath Parish Council

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Hockley Heath Parish Council

• Chairman Richard Holt

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Caius PetroniusRoman Prefect of EgyptAD66

• We trained hard but it seemed that every time
  we were beginning to form up into teams, we would
  be reorganised. I was to learn later in life
  that we meet any new situation by reorganising,
  and a wonderful method it can be for creating the
  illusion of progress while producing confusion
  inefficiency and demoralisation.

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Thank You

• Opportunity to state our case
• Your assistance Mr Blamire-Brown
• My Parish Councillors - unanimous

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What is Hockley Heath Parish Council

• PROPERTIES
• Tidbury Green 373
• Hockley Heath 731
• Cheswick Green 974
• Dickens Heath 1313 (and continuing!)

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Precept (Rounded Figures)

• Current Precept approx 110,000
• Each settlement Pro-Rata Contribution
• Tidbury Green 11,500
• Hockley Heath 22,500
• Cheswick Green 30,000
• Dickens Heath 40,000

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Each Elector Contribution

• Tidbury Green 14.81
• Hockley Heath 16.27
• Cheswick Green 14.87
• Dickens Heath 20.60

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Review - Options

• Not asking you to make decision
• To review what the options may be
• Hockley Heath and Cheswick Green Combine
• Dickens Heath and Tidbury Green divided into
  separate Parishes

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Why?

• The Need to Reflect Community Identity
• Dickens Heath is a new development
• Separate Shopping
• Separate Schooling, Childcare
• Its own unique identity
• Land Bank considerations
• Population inequality
• Geography
• Village Halls

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New Solutions

• Youth Club Dickens Heath
• Homework Club
• Tidbury Green listened to residents feel not
  responsive to their local need. This is a hamlet
  with a sense of identity of its own. With its
  own need.

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Costs

• Neutral perhaps more efficient!
• Will be cost with no action
• 5,000 for process (coincides with the need for a
  Parish Plan

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Aspiration

• More responsive local needs
• No overall costs increase proportionate to
  existing settlements
• Deal with inefficiencies
• Responsive to local settlements
• Financial equity

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If you say no!

• Unanimous decision of Parish Council
• Review less favourably received by Secretary of
  State without your support
• Political vacuum
• Let parishioners down to take pre-emptive action
  to review

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Questions?

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